Jeff is a copywriter/ACD at Jacobson Rost in Chicago. The first two projects on his site feature Conan and Will Ferrel for Bud Light. Does that make MC jealous, getting to shoot with Conan and Will Ferrel? And beer? No. No, no, no. Course not. Maybe. Little. Yes.
Portfolio: jmoswald.com
Landon is a recent CW grad from Chicago Portfolio School. Lots of smart writing-based campaigns in his portfolio—which of course MC digs the most. Good times.
Portfolio: ohnohedinnin.com
Vera is a creative lead/ACD at Avenue Marketing & Communications in Chicago, previously in-house at University of Phoenix. Lots of the work in her portfolio is collateral/digital that’s more informational than marketing, which means that there’s lots and lots of writing. Which is what lots of lots of companies are looking for in a copywriter, you know?
Portfolio: coroflot.com/veraspringett
Josh is a copywriter/ACD at Butler Shine Stern & Partners in Sausalito. His portfolio rocks. MC’s been hearing a bit of poo-pooing lately about Cargo—that while it’s clean, you can’t get the modern look you can with Squarespace. Might be true. And MC digs them both. But Josh’s portfolio proves that, if you’ve got the content, super-clean super-easy-to-nav is all you need.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/joshleutz
Aleix is a copywriter/CD at Grey London Barcelona. Since his last post on MC more than three years ago (06.18.10, has it been that long?!?!), he’s been very, very busy. That includes a new site and all kinds of new work on it, like the above interactive YouTube video series for SEAT. Good times.
Portfolio: aleixbou.com
Ladies and gents, MC proudly presents the portfolio sites of 10 Chicago Portfolio School copywriter grads (in alphabetical order):
Adam Repp – adamrepp.com
Andy Hunt – andy-hunt.squarespace.
Audrey Hansen – audrey-hansen.
Bridget Natale – bridgetnatale.com
Caroline Ganson – carolineganson.com
Justin Lake – justinthewords.com
Lyndsey Tonyan – lyndseytonyan.com
Sam Bordignon – samantha-bordignon.
Sarah Kennedy – sarahwritescopy.com
Sean Collander – seancollander.com
Chicago Portfolio School Week Wednesday features the one and only Justin Lake. Don’t miss Justin’s D&AD-winning campaign Be Average to combat obesity in the UK. “Since half the population is currently performing below average when it comes to physical activity, we decided to encourage the people of the UK to forget about overachieving and just Be Average!” Good times.
Portfolio: justinthewords.com
CPS Week on MC continues with Sarah Kennedy. Check out her campaign for Crushers Club in Chicago—so nice to see an integrated campaign, including video, for a great cause in a student portfolio. Perfect tagline on her Sur La Table campaign, too: where taste meets taste. Yup.
Portfolio: sarahwritescopy.com
Chicago Portfolio School Week kicks off with Audrey Hansen, who was nice enough to gather her class’s links and share ’em with MC. (Thanks, Audrey!) Her first campaign is “Print is dead” for SPIN Magazine. But it’s a print campaign, so maybe print is only half-dead. Whew!
Portfolio: audrey-hansen.squarespace.com
Chris is a freelance copywriter/ACD in Mobile, Alabama. His site was submitted by fellow CW Scott Shalles (big ups, Scott). Lots of great writing all over Chris’s site, including a super long copy piece for The Simplicity Plan that actually makes death seem not so bad. Or, not as bad. Nice.
Portfolio: chrisstoltz.com
Mark is a copywriter at Avenue in Chicago. Branding Clarke company cars with a line that communicates both why the person driving the car is spraying chemicals and environmental friendliness is no easy task. But Mark’s line, “Love the Earth. Not mosquitoes.” is pretty much spot on. Especially if you’ve lived anywhere there are lots of mosquitoes. Hate. Mosquitoes.
Portfolio: markfulara.com
Ladies and gentlemen, MC is honored to present the portfolio sites of seven Fall/Winter 2013 Creative Circus graduating copywriters (in alphabetical order):
Marielle Castillo – mariellecastillo.
Madison Jackson – goalittlemad.com
William Knox – wknox.com
Chris Potts – bigglasses.4ormat.com
Mark Price – thepriceiswriter.com
Craig Shervin (with AD/partner Andrew Lindsey) – salmonellafarms.
Meredith Young – meredithyoung.com
Creative Circus Week continues with Madison Jackson (goalittlemad.com, nice). There’s an appropriate amount of sexting, booze and wings in her portfolio for a recent college grad. But also the above video for Georgia Aquarium, which is charming. Dig it.
Portfolio: goalittlemad.com
Creative Circus Winter 2013 CW Grads Week on MC kicks off with Craig Shervin, who shares a site with AD/partner Andrew Lindsey. Their URL is SalmonellaFarms.com and you’ll see why quick. Hilarious work all over the place. Big ups!
Portfolio: salmonellafarms.com
Jeff is a copywriter in Los Angeles, formerly at The Escape Pod in Chicago. The first project on his site is very, very small: mobile micro-banners for Claussen Pickles. They’re as smart as they are tiny. Hooray, copywriting!
Portfolio: jeffkwiatek.com
Garrett is a junior copywriter (slash gentleman slash pizza enthusiast) at Energy BBDO in Chicago. He’s got five campaigns up on his site, including one for Ted Baker (above). Seeing Garrett’s photo on his About page, it looks like he actually wears Ted Baker. Sharp!
Portfolio: garrettvernon.com
Daniel is a senior copywriter at LatinWorks Austin, previously at Y&R Paris. Since his last post on MC (06.17.11), he’s moved from France to Texas, put together a new site, and got a whole bunch of new work. Time for an update!
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/daniellobaton
Connor is a copywriter at LESS Co. in Minneapolis. Before that, he was a copywriter / digital strategist / community manager for Totino’s at General Mills, including Pizza Rolls. (Funny banner headline from Connor’s site: “Pizza Rolls. Because, Pizza Rolls.” Yes.) There is no more perfectly delicious / perfectly bad for you food product than Totino’s Pizza Rolls. How did Connor survive working on the account?!?!
Portfolio: conorchampley.com
Cole is a copywriter at The Lacek Group in Minneapolis (and a friend of MC, big ups Cole!). His book includes a student section from his days at Brainco, plus a whole bunch of headline-centric print for DuPont’s Pioneer, a big-time ag account. Nice stuff.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/colethompsonwriting
Matt is a recent graduate from the Vega School of Brand Communications in Cape Town, South Africa. One of his student projects is Fast Foodie, and app that surfaces food and drink specials near you. MC needs this app in San Francisco like yesterday.
Portfolio: mattbouch.co.za
Back on 02.17.02 MC featured the Doessel cousins, John and Ben, in the same post right after they graduated. Now, a year and a half later, John checks in with a new site and new work from his first gig, at Y&R Chicago. Check it out.
Portfolio: yojohn.com
Tom is a freelance copywriter in Raleigh, NC. Since his last post on MC (04.02.12), he’s got a brand new site and a bunch of new work up on it. Time for an update!
Portfolio: tomisawriter.com
Ramon is a copywriter at Grey Group/Red Fuse Communications in NYC. His book is in that half-produced, half-student, new-copywriter stage that MC loves to see. What did Ramon do in school? What’s he produced since, at Y&R and Grey/Red Fuse? Check it out.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/ramonariel
Maria is a copywriter at Alkemy Digital_enabler in Milan, Italy. Eight months into the biz, she won a Bronze Lion at Cannes for Durex Loveville, which is hot. Winning the award, not the campaign. Actually, the campaign, too.
Portfolio: behance.net/vichiapicella
Since Kent’s last post on MC (way back on 01.16.2010), he’s been very, very busy. He’s got a new Cargo site, a new gig as CD at DDB NY, and all kinds of new work in his portfolio, including Project Imagin8ion with Ron Howard (awesome). Definitely time for an update.
Portfolio: kentkoren.com
Troy is a copywriter/ACD at mOcean in Los Angeles. He and his team make awesome campaigns for movies (Thor 2, Gravity, We Are The Millers, Star Trek Into Darkness, etc.) and TV (The Americans, Legit, The Bridge, Justified, etc.), and are helping to launch the new FX network, FXX. MC would like Troy’s job, please.
Portfolio: troyhutchinson.com
David is a copywriter in San Francisco (and a good friend to MC), formerly at Goodby Silverstein & Partners. Since his last post (way back on 02.17.10), he’s got a new site with a whole bunch of killer new work. This is a goo-oo-ood one.
Portfolio: seriousboyfriend.com
Medi is a copywriter in London. In the process of putting together her portfolio, she also created the above 200-page risographed hardcover book, 101 Nights of Ideas, which she bound and foil-blocked herself at the London Centre for Book Arts. Super cool.
Portfolio: behance.net/MediGwosdz
James is a copywriter/acd/creative head at Big in London. He shares a site with art director/creative partner Tim Jones, and they’ve added a bunch of new work since their last post on MC (01.09.12). Don’t miss Domino’s Pizza DomiCopter. If Domino’s did that in the States, MC would be ordering pepperoni and pineapple every night.
Portfolio: timandjames.co.uk
Oliver is a copywriter in Richmond, VA, previously at Martin. His site is built with readymag, the first on MC (pretty sure). Looks great. Also, it allows Oliver to step you through his portfolio in the order he wants, which is cool. Dig it.
Portfolio: readymag.com/HouseofO/portfolio